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Anyway, back on topic, I've picked NMSU in one bracket, and IU in another.

Hopefully this won't be considered too inflammatory coming from a Purdue fan, but I do think IU is a little overrated. Not a lot, but a little. Despite a couple (very) notable wins. Heck, they're better than any of my teams, but they probably should be ranked closer to the mid 20s than the mid teens.

Anyway, back on topic, I've picked NMSU in one bracket, and IU in another.

Hopefully this won't be considered too inflammatory coming from a Purdue fan, but I do think IU is a little overrated. Not a lot, but a little. Despite a couple (very) notable wins. Heck, they're better than any of my teams, but they probably should be ranked closer to the mid 20s than the mid teens.

Not inflammatory...its just your opinion...but I'm curious what it is based on. I didn't keep count but I would be surprised if less than 90% of the "experts" and fans in general picked IU as a 4 seed. When it is that commonly forecast I don't see how it can be considered overrated. IU had wins over UK, each of the three B1G champions, and swept their NCAA-bound arch-rival. I still think the only disappointing losses were at home to Minnesota and on the road to Nebraska, but every team has had a game or two they would like back.

IMHO, whether looking at IU or PU don't put too little weight on the fact that they played in the toughest conference in the country.

I thought/hoped that they would be ignored. My post said "Nip it Nip it". It was in no way shape or form aimed at you. That you took it as being aimed at you suggests a touch of paranoia. Or would you have preferred I said nothing?

It is amazing the attention a president gets for his NCAA picks, but what is more interesting is zoo animals picking. Last year, at the Houston zoo, a seal picked either final four teams or sweet 16 teams.

And one year, in our office bracket, one lady picked based on which school had the prettier campus. She finished second.

I thought/hoped that they would be ignored. My post said "Nip it Nip it". It was in no way shape or form aimed at you. That you took it as being aimed at you suggests a touch of paranoia. Or would you have preferred I said nothing?

Some folks just aren't happy unless they're unhappy.

Figuring out other's unstated "feelings" is that something you learned from Ernest?

My goal was to stop it. While Ren uses reason and tact I'm a little less delicate... but our goals are the same.

In an aside, I wish they would award the automatic bids to the season champion, not the conference tournament champ. There should be a bigger reward for a team's performance over 30 games than one that gets hot and strings 3-4 wins together over a compressed time frame.

Yes. Some coaches don't care much about the conference tourney anyway and if they feel like they've locked up a good enough seed will put more importance on avoiding injury than on winning the games.

I agree. But that's exactly the type of innocuous and non-partisan discussion that can so easily be misinterpreted and end up... well, we can all see how the original topic has been almost completely drown out now.

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Pat changed his tune after the loss tonight - Knight was disappointed but not down.

"I can't wait until next year. But I'm going to miss these guys," he said before choking up. "It's been a special year. To go from getting fired a year ago (at Texas Tech) and make the NCAA tournament - and it's nothing I did. It's the six seniors."